Our View: Welcome Minn. to the marriage equality club

4:53 PM,
May 16, 2013

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
| Our View

We've said many times that we hope Iowa will continue to lose more and more of its market share as a site for same-sex weddings as more and more state courts, legislatures and voters begin to recognize same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue.

So we're happy to add our northern neighbor to the growing lists of states that acknowledge how their gay and lesbian citizens have as much right to marry as their heterosexual citizens do.

On Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill making his state the 12th in the nation to make such an important step forward. The groundwork for such a campaign was ...